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"Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary."
"I do not see them here; but after death God knows I know the faces I shall see, Each one a murdered self, with low last breath. 'I am thyself,what hast thou done to me?' 'And Iand Ithyself,' (lo! each one saith,) 'And thou thyself to all eternity!"
"Getting it done is my reward."
"When you are done changing, you're done."
"Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed."
"'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping wears away stones . . . and little strokes fell great oaks, as Poor Richard says. . . ."
"If we really want something done, it is best to do it ourselves."
"Done sayin I'm done playin"
"To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it."
"If I had not been so great an invalid, I should not have done so much as I have accomplished."
"At last, however, he began to think -- as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too . . ."
"Marriage: The most expensive way to get your laundry done."
"Once you have really done all you can, then you can show it to people. But I find this is increasingly not the case with the younger people. They do a first draft and want somebody to finish it off for them with good advice."
"I've done a lot of films that have become iconic, not necessarily because of me."
"I've done a few special effects movies in my life, so I've gotten that out of my system."
"When I can no longer create anything, I'll be done for."
"I got my boobs done because I wanted to even out my lower half, and I thought that would take the focus away from my hips."
"If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty."
"In dealing with the dead, if we treat them as if they were entirely dead, that would show a want of affection and should not be done; or, if we treat them as if they were entirely alive, that would show a want of wisdom and should not be done."
"As poetry is the highest speech of man, it can not only accept and contain, but in the end express best everything in the world, or in himself, that he discovers. It will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know. This has always been, and always will be, poetry's office."
